killer tax

It’s probably no surprise that a significant portion — 24 cents out of every dollar — of your taxes go to the military. But where those dollars go from there should be a national scandal.

Out of those 24 cents, just 5 cents go to our troops. But 12 cents go to corporate military contractors.

All told, the average taxpayer handed over $1,704 to Pentagon contractors last year...The king of all the Pentagon contractors is Lockheed Martin, the maker of the ill-conceived F-35 jet fighter....The $225 you probably paid to Lockheed Martin is more than you probably paid for disease research at the National Institutes of Health ($155), K-12 education ($100), or free and reduced school lunches and other child nutrition programs ($107). And that’s just for one corporation.

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its official

....the conclusion of the Mueller inquiry should be welcomed by everyone because it frees up resources that can now be used to determine whether God had a hand in electing Donald Trump. In a story reported by the BBC and elsewhere, dispensationalist Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded oddly to a question regarding the Jewish Purim holiday, which commemorates the alleged rescue of the Jewish people by Queen Esther from the Persians. When Pompeo, at the time in Israel, was asked if “President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from an Iranian menace” he answered that “As a Christian, I certainly believe that’s possible. I am confident that the Lord is at work here.”
    -- Philip M. Giraldi

corporate homicide

......the outrageous corner-cutting and suppression of engineering dissent, within both Boeing and the FAA (there were reported “heated discussions”) produced a worst case scenario. So, Boeing is working overtime with its legions of Washington lobbyists, its New York P.R. firm, its continued campaign contributions to some 330 Members of Congress. The airlines and pilots’ union chiefs (but not some angry pilots) are staying mum, scared into silence due to contracts and jobs, waiting for the Boeing 737 Max planes to fly again.    -- Ralph Nader

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population bombers

The importance of viewing demography in social terms becomes even more apparent when we ask: would the grow-or-die economy called capitalism really cease to plunder the planet even if the world’s population were reduced to a tenth of its present numbers? Would lumber companies, mining concerns, oil cartels, and agribusiness render redwood and Douglas fir forests safer for grizzly bears if — given capitalism’s need to accumulate and produce for their own sake — California’s population were reduced to one million people?  The answer to these questions is a categorical no....

Murray Bookchin, The Population Myth, 2010 

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As a Dead Canary in the Twitter Coal Mine

by Elizabeth Keyes

Growing censorship was a given.
How long for me in Twitter heaven?

Like Paul Revere I spread the alarm.
Countless cases of corp/government harm.

My tweets to mass peeps found on-line.
We citizen journalists of like mind.

TWEET, RE-TWEET, LIKE, REPLY – four precious years.
My missionary zeal enjoyed no fear.

Twitter’s ex-glorious platform of access
Finally struck me dumb for Left excess.

“Account suspended” lowered boom’s epitaph.
(Three weeks and counting, I’ve gotten the shaft!)

Assange’s fate awaits us, one by one.
Remember him when your own time comes.